Cigar-butt former.



PATENTED APR. 5, 1904.

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CIGAR BUTT FORMER.

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CHARLES VVESSELS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

CIGAR-BUTT FORMER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 756,752, dated April 5, 1904..

Application filed October 23, 1903.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES WESSELS, a citizen of the United States, residing in New York, borough of Brooklyn, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cigar-Butt Formers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a device for forming the butt-ends of cigars, and has for its object to provide a mold for imparting a certain desired shape to the butt of a cigar in the process of making the same.

The invention consists of a cigar-butt former which comprises the novel features of construction and arrangement, as hereinafter set forth and then pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a perspective view of my improved mold with a number of cigars in place. Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal section on line 2 2, Fig. l; and Fig. 3 is a vertical transverse section on line 3 3, Fig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

Referring now to the several views, A is a plate which is made of cast metal, wood, hard rubber, or any other suitable material. The plate A is provided with a number of apertures a corresponding to the size of the buttends of the cigars to be formed therein. At

the under side of the plate A, below the apertures a, are arranged tapering sockets B, which are made integral with the plate A. The sockets are made to converge by a larger curve toward the bottom, while the bottom portion is of smaller curvature and rounded ofli, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3. \Vhen the cigar has Serial No- 178,l82. (No model.)

been made in the usual manner and is still moist, the butt-end is forced into one of the sockets B in the plate A and is allowed to remain there for some time-until the shape of the butt has set sufficiently. When removed from the plate, the cigar-butt has a blunt rounded-off or elliptical shape instead of the tapering form which was produced heretofore in the usual rolling of the cigar and which had then to be trimmed off by abutt-cutting knife.

The advantages of my improved cigar-butt former are, first, that a uniform blunt rounded buttend is obtained, and, second, that the butts are shaped directly by the mold-sockets without requiring the time-consuming manual shaping and finishing of the same.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. A mold for shaping the butts of cigars, consisting of a plate having a plurality of rounded-off projections, each having a shallow CHARLES WESSELS.

Witnesses:

PAUL GonPEL, HENRY J. SUHRBIER. 

